Re: gethostby* users

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:35:30PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Even though the situation improved, there are still some programs left
> which use the gethostby* functions. These really have to be converted
> to use getaddrinfo. Here is the break-down per package of an incomplete
> installation giving the number of programs/libraries with problems in
> that package. I.e., there are like more packages on an install-all
> machine. The full list with the program/library names is at
>
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/gethostby-users
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> 7 qemu
> 1 kvm
You can add 'xen' to this list too. Basically they all use QEMU, and QEMU
has really crude IPv4 handling written in such a way that its pretty hard
to switch to getaddrinfo(). It is none-the-less on my list of things to
attack in upstream QEMU, because the rest of the virt stack is fully IPv6
enabled & QEMU's VNC server is a glaring missing link :-(
Dan.
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